Test 4 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

Wicked, what face did the stepmum pull when chasing them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: face, stepmum · What happens: do, pull, chase · To what, where: stepmum

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pull	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmum	det
7	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pull	nsubj
8	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 chasing	advmod
10	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pull	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chasing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	face		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	pull	present	the stepmum		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chase	gerund	the stepmum not said here	stepmum	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

a sneer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sneer	det
2	sneer	sneer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a face like a storm cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloud	compound
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 face	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a face uglier than a witch's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uglier	nsubj
3	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 witch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uglier	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a sour look of spite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 look	det
2	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	amod
3	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 spite	case
5	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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